AI startup ecosystem
Artificial intelligence is one of Europe's fastest-growing startup sectors, with hubs in London, Paris, Berlin, and Helsinki driving advances in generative AI, computer vision, and NLP. European AI startups benefit from strong academic research, increasing VC specialisation, and growing enterprise demand across industries. We track 929 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Kutia
Software development company headquartered in Prishtina with further offices in Tirana and New York, and a STIKK member. It builds custom engineering solutions and production-ready AI systems, and supplies dedicated engineering teams that operate as an extension of client organisations, working across government, healthcare technology and scale-ups.
Kyiv AI & Data Meetup (Summer 2026)
Monthly AI and data-science meetup in Kyiv with 200+ ML engineers, data scientists, and AI founders. July edition focuses on LLM applications and RAG architectures in Ukrainian startups. Free. One of the best ways to connect with Kyiv's deep ML talent pool outside of conference season.
Lace AI
AI revenue-automation software for home-services call centers, with a 24/7 AI customer-service rep that books jobs into ServiceTitan and a call-analytics engine for coaching and lead recovery.
Langdock
Berlin-based enterprise AI workspace providing a GDPR-compliant environment where teams can use LLMs from multiple providers—GPT-4, Claude, Gemini—through a single interface connected to company data, with full EU data residency. Focused on European enterprises with strict data-sovereignty requirements.
Lars Mangelsdorf
Co-founder and CEO of Yokoy, the Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019. Mangelsdorf led Yokoy through a CHF 80 million Series B in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech rounds of that year, and expanded the company from DACH into the UK and the Netherlands, building deep integrations with SAP and Oracle for enterprise finance automation.
Latvian Artificial Intelligence Centre
Latvia's national Artificial Intelligence Centre (Makslīga Intelekta Centrs) was established by law and officially opened on 2 April 2025 at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga. Founded jointly by the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development, the Association of Latvian Universities, and the ICT Association LIKTA, it is structured as a state-supported private foundation with €370,000 in initial Ministry of Economics funding. The Centre serves as Latvia's primary collaborative platform for AI research, ethics, governance, Latvian language preservation in AI systems, and technology commercialisation, and is a principal organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference.
Latvian Digital Innovation Hub
One of two European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) in Latvia, the Latvian Digital Innovation Hub supports companies through digital transformation via digital maturity assessments, personalised training programmes, and expert consultancy. Funded with €3.5 million (50% EU, 50% Latvia), it operates across six regional centres in Riga, Liepaja, Jelgava, Rezekne, Valmiera, and Ventspils, focusing on AI, 5G, and GovTech innovation. The hub is a co-organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga.
Laurent Sifre
Co-founder and former CTO of H and a deep-learning researcher who previously worked at Google DeepMind on AlphaGo and AlphaZero, bringing frontier-model expertise to the Paris AI startup.
Lawhive
Lawhive is a London-based legaltech company building an AI-driven law firm model focused on the consumer legal market. It helps people resolve everyday legal issues such as family law, landlord and tenant disputes and employment matters, connecting clients with solicitors through an online platform. The company has developed its own AI operating system used by lawyers to reduce the time, cost and administrative burden of routine legal work. In February 2026 Lawhive raised $60 million in a Series B round, with participation from TQ Ventures, GV, Balderton Capital and Jigsaw, to support its expansion into the US.
Layla Hosseini-Gerami
Scientist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of AI and drug discovery, focused on using computational methods to rescue and repurpose previously failed drug candidates. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and drug discovery.
LDX3 (LeadDev London) 2027
LDX3, LeadDev's London engineering leadership conference, returns 28-29 June 2027. Pre-sale tickets for the 2027 edition are now available, continuing LeadDev's programming for engineering managers and technical leaders.
LDX3 London 2026
LeadDev's London conference for engineering leaders, with 2,500+ attendees across three stages on leading teams, building systems, and industry shifts. For technical founders and engineering leaders it is the strongest UK venue for engineering-leadership depth and peer networking.
Lead Ventures
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based independent VC firm founded in 2017, specialising in late-Seed and Series A investments in scale-ups across Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm closed its second fund at €100 million in 2024, deploying initial tickets of €2–5 million with follow-on capacity up to €10 million. It has backed over 20 companies and claims the largest VC exit in Hungarian history with its investment in AImotive, acquired by Stellantis. Beyond capital, the firm differentiates on access to an international network of industry operators and domain experts.
Leapo
Client management platform for online and hybrid fitness coaches. Leapo tracks each client's workout completion, check-ins and trends, then surfaces a weekly briefing of who is on track and who needs attention — alongside a drag-and-drop workout builder, nutrition logging (via FatSecret), custom check-in forms and an AI assistant that flags at-risk clients. Currently in early access.
Learning Heroes
Andorra la Vella education platform on the national innovative-companies map, teaching disruptive technology to a Spanish-speaking audience. It runs masters programmes and online courses in artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, trading and creative AI, and describes itself as the largest university centre for disruptive technologies in its language, reporting students in more than thirty-five countries.
Leavingstone
Full-service creative technology agency founded in Tbilisi in 2010, offering digital marketing, AI solutions, UX/UI design, and web and mobile development. Leavingstone is the first agency in the Caucasus region to win Cannes Lions awards, claiming the distinction two years in a row (2015 and 2016), and has accumulated over 150 international awards including Webby and Eurobest prizes. The agency employs more than 100 people and counts Siemens, Visa, Netflix, and WHO among its clients.
Leeds Digital Festival 2026
Billed as the UK's largest open tech festival — a decentralised, mostly free two-week programme of hundreds of community-run events. For a Yorkshire founder or developer it is an accessible way to run or attend sessions, build a local network, and recruit without a big ticket cost.
LegalFly
LegalFly is an AI-native legal operating system for in-house legal, compliance and procurement teams. The platform automates contract review, drafting, legal research and due diligence, integrating with Microsoft Word and Teams, and maintains full audit trails across 60+ jurisdictions. Founded by ex-Tinder product leaders Ruben Miessen, Kasper Verbeeck, Dennis Montégnies and Gregory Vekemans, the company raised a €15 M Series A led by Notion Capital in July 2024. It reported 800%+ revenue growth in 2025 and counts Slaughter & May and Allianz among strategic partners. LegalFly was preparing a new growth round for mid-2026.
Legora
Stockholm-based legal AI platform for law firms and in-house legal teams, assisting with research, contract review, and drafting across complex matters. Used by 1,000+ legal teams in 50 markets. Reached €85M+ ARR in under 18 months. Raised $550M Series D at a $5.6B valuation from Accel, Atlassian, and NVIDIA's NVentures.
lemlist
lemlist is a Paris-based sales engagement SaaS platform built by the company lempire. Originally a cold-email personalisation tool, it has grown into a multichannel outreach platform combining a large B2B lead database, AI-assisted personalisation, and built-in email warm-up (lemwarm) to help sales teams run outbound campaigns and book meetings. It is used by tens of thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries and is part of the broader lempire product family, which also includes lemcal, Taplio and Tweet Hunter. The company scaled largely through product-led growth, and in October 2021 raised $30M from Expedition Growth Capital.
